sacerdotal
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In December 1984, Rev. Cardenal was expelled from the Jesuit order and was suspended from conducting sacerdotal duties until further notice.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2016
Surrealism's whole mode of attack�the manifestoes, shock treatment and sacerdotal gesticulation�was based on an idea of the artist as public figure, the Anti-Priest, to which Cornell did not subscribe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That sacerdotal view has altered in recent years.
From Washington Post
The red hat itself is a badge of honor, not of sacerdotal rank.
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But this does not constitute a really sacerdotal dominion, and the term theocracy is as little applicable to such an order of things, as to the Greek Patriarchate in the Turkish empire.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.